U.S. Treasury Official to Visit Beirut
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Treasury Neal Steven Wolin is expected to arrive in Beirut in the coming two days where he will meet senior Lebanese officials, An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday.
Wolin will seek to reiterate his country's decision to control individual cases of financial deception.
According to the daily, the U.S. official will assure during his meetings with Lebanese figures that his country has no intention to target the Lebanese banking sector, but aims at controlling the funding of Hizbullah.
The daily said that Wolin is expected to arrive in Beirut on Tuesday or Wednesday.
In June, the U.S. Treasury Department accused several Lebanese nationals of being drug kingpins and terrorists for allegedly working as part of a South American money laundering and drug trafficking network with links to Hizbullah, saying that one of the individuals operated a cell for the party in Colombia.
Washington classifies Hizbullah a foreign "terrorist organization" and it is under U.S. sanctions.
Hizbullah was added to a blacklist associated with an executive order signed by U.S. President Barack Obama in August last year which targeted the government of Syria and its supporters.
In February 2011, the U.S. Treasury department designated the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a "primary money-laundering concern." The privately owned bank was subsequently merged with the Lebanese subsidiary of Societe Generale.
10 September 2012, 10:12
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Idiot American official takes orders from his evil masters who want to destroy Lebanon
10 September 2012, 11:49
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what is funny about this, and it is funny, is the fact that hizbushaitan and their fpm cronies expect from the US to be intimidated into not applying international laws about money laundry and iran restrictions.
the US has all the mucle needed to enforce their decisions and bring doen our banking system. just ask any bank employee how strict are regulations these days.
iran, syria and hizbushaitan (who is a terrorist organization) are costing Lebanon its economy.
10 September 2012, 16:09
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
10 September 2012, 15:53
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@geha, it seems you got under the skin of FT, keep it up, 20 thumbs up! The split personality patient cannot delete my 20 thumbs up no matter how many identity he has.
10 September 2012, 16:09
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Long live Israel and the USA.
10 September 2012, 17:23
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I understand the allegiance to the US which is a great country.
But to Israel? man! Israel is racist, supremacist, it raped our people indirectly by exporting to us their palestinian problem and directly by bombing us. Israel is as much of a problem to us as the Assad regime... You cannot say long live and israel in the same sentence...
10 September 2012, 19:46
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I will post whatever I want, wherever I want, whenever I want and you can't do a single thing about it :)
I put more money into the Lebanese economy every single summer than you will in your entire sorry lifespan. Go put your pajama on, kiss daddy Aoun g-nite, get his blessings, then run along to bed. Ignorance and illiteracy seems to plague your party of Failed Political Movement in the worst possible way.
10 September 2012, 16:50
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Why doesn't he transfer some money to finance a stronger army, instead of " not targeting the Lebanese banking sector"?
10 September 2012, 17:06
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ASSad is falling, Iran's currency and economy is being crushed, the Hezz are next.
10 September 2012, 17:24
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somehow i dont feel confortable by the visit of this guy... Probably sent by some pro zionist congressman...
10 September 2012, 19:55
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@whyaskwhy, I am interested in hearing more of your opinion about US Mideast policy but please articulate your point better and site examples of what you are trying to say. BTW if we succeed in voting Mr. Obama out of office in November you will see a clearer and less conflicting message. Also if you are one of those who thinks the US will remove the Assad regime and put Lebanese interests before its own, you would be very mistaken.
10 September 2012, 20:00
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So you are interested in voting Mr. Obama out of office... I have been wondering for a while, what can someone see in Mr. Romney? I see nothing positive in him...
10 September 2012, 21:24
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God bless America and keep her the strongest country in the world so it can crush its enemies and liberate the oppressed.
10 September 2012, 19:59
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God grant the leaders of Israel the serenity to accept the things they cannot change, courage to change the things they can and the wisdom to know the difference. May they eradicate sooner than later the Iranian regime and their mercenary force aka HA which is occupying Lebanon and oppressing its people.
10 September 2012, 21:15
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LOL.....BSTHrower says "we are free". You have no clue what that word means! You like to be suppressed & told what to do like a dog! HA/Syria/Iran (your country) do not beleive in 'free'.
10 September 2012, 21:19
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This sanctimonious BS from a person who advocates the shooting of M14 supporters in the head and dissolving them in acid. Go look in the mirror, if you still have an urge to spew your hate afterwards then put a sock in it. You are the No 1 hypocrite on this forum and you have pledged your allegiance to a man who is now allied with the same regime that humiliated him and chased him out of b3abda with his tail tucked between his legs, he is a coward and a denier that the regime he is bowing to, is holding Lebanese prisoners and denying it. If you had an ounce of morality and ethics you wouldn't even spew your filth here. I pity you and feel sorry for those who have to interact with you on a daily basis. You are warped and a decaying, soulless ghoul.
11 September 2012, 15:52
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Who are you are you to welcome me? Carefully research my posts before you pontificate. I am American first, Lebanese second. If you are an American who puts Lebanon first then you must have not understood the pledge of allegiance you took. That makes you another immigrant who took advantage of the system and not worthy of your US citizenship. But why am I wasting my time with you FT/Mowaten and your other 20 or so ID's?
11 September 2012, 15:54
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God bless America, for despite all its faults, it remains the beacon for freedom, the model to thrive for and the envy of the entire world. If America falls, the world falls with it, if it stands, there is hope for all to defeat tyranny, oppression and subjugation.
